Sylvia Schein

(1947-2004)

We are sad to announce the death of Professor Sylvia Schein, who was a member of De Re Militari.  Professor Schein was one of the leading scholars on the Crusader States, and has contributed important research on several topics.  She received her Master's degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1973, and her PhD from Cambridge University in 1980.  Her dissertation was titled, Europe and the Crusade 1291-1312, and was supervised by R.C. Smail. Her last post was at the University of Haifa.  

Books

Gateway to the Heavenly City: Crusader Jerusalem and the Catholic West (1099-1187) (Ashgate, 2005)

The Papacy, the West and the Recovery of the Holy Land 1274-1314 (Oxford University Press, 1991)

Selected Articles

Servise de marriage and law enforcement in the Latin kingdom of Jerusalem, De Sion exibit lex et verbum domini de Hierusalem: Essays on Medieval Law, Liturgy, and Literature in Honour of Amnon Linder (Brepols, 2001)

Bridget of Sweden, Margery Kempe and women's Jerusalem pilgrimages in the Middle Ages, Mediterranean Historical Review 14:1 (1999)

Babylon and Jerusalem: the fall of Acre 1291-1996, From Clermont to Jerusalem: The Crusades and Crusader Societies, 1095-1500 (Brepols, 1998)

Between East and West: the Jews in the Latin kingdom of Jerusalem 1099-1291, East and West in the Crusader States: Context - Contacts - Confrontations (Peeters, 1996)

Jérusalem. Objectif originale de la Première Croisade?, Autour de la Première Croisade: Actes du Colloque de la Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East (Publications de la Sorbonnne, 1996)

The image of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem in the thirteenth century, Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire: / Belgisch Tijdschrift voor Filologie en Geschiedenis 64:4 (1986)

From milites Christi to mali Christiani. The Italian communes in Western historical literature, I Comuni italiani nel regno crociato di Gerusalemme. Atti del Colloquio "The Italian Communes in the Crusading Kingdom of Jerusalem" (Università di Genova, 1986)

Philip IV and the Crusade: a reconsideration, Crusade and Settlement. Papers Read at the First Conference of the Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East and presented to R.C. Smail (University College Cardiff Press, 1985)

Gesta Dei per Mongolos 1300. The Genesis of a non-event, English Historical Review 94:373 (1979)

For a full bibliography, please see http://israel-stu.haifa.ac.il/staff/sschein.htm